Dit is ons nieuw hondje Kira, een kruising van een waterhond en een Podenko. Ze is sinds 7 februari 2024 bij ons en druk bezig ons hart te veroveren. Het is een lief, aanhankelijk hondje, dat zich op een week snel aan ons heeft aangepast. Ze is heel vinnig en nieuwsgierig, een heel ander hondje dan Noleke.
This is our new dog Kira, a cross between a water dog and a Podenko. She has been with us since February 7, 2024 and is busy winning our hearts. She is a sweet, affectionate dog who quickly adapted to us within a week. She is very quick and curious, a very different dog than Noleke.
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The purpose of this blog is the creation of an open, international, independent and free forum, where every UFO-researcher can publish the results of his/her research. The languagues, used for this blog, are Dutch, English and French.You can find the articles of a collegue by selecting his category. Each author stays resposable for the continue of his articles. As blogmaster I have the right to refuse an addition or an article, when it attacks other collegues or UFO-groupes.
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UFO'S of UAP'S, ASTRONOMIE, RUIMTEVAART, ARCHEOLOGIE, OUDHEIDKUNDE, SF-SNUFJES EN ANDERE ESOTERISCHE WETENSCHAPPEN - DE ALLERLAATSTE NIEUWTJES
UFO's of UAP'S in België en de rest van de wereld In België had je vooral BUFON of het Belgisch UFO-Netwerk, dat zich met UFO's bezighoudt. BEZOEK DUS ZEKER VOOR ALLE OBJECTIEVE INFORMATIE , enkel nog beschikbaar via Facebook en deze blog.
Verder heb je ook het Belgisch-Ufo-meldpunt en Caelestia, die prachtig, doch ZEER kritisch werk leveren, ja soms zelfs héél sceptisch...
Voor Nederland kan je de mooie site www.ufowijzer.nl bezoeken van Paul Harmans. Een mooie site met veel informatie en artikels.
MUFON of het Mutual UFO Network Inc is een Amerikaanse UFO-vereniging met afdelingen in alle USA-staten en diverse landen.
MUFON's mission is the analytical and scientific investigation of the UFO- Phenomenon for the benefit of humanity...
Je kan ook hun site bekijken onder www.mufon.com.
Ze geven een maandelijks tijdschrift uit, namelijk The MUFON UFO-Journal.
Since 02/01/2020 is Pieter ex-president (=voorzitter) of BUFON, but also ex-National Director MUFON / Flanders and the Netherlands. We work together with the French MUFON Reseau MUFON/EUROP.
ER IS EEN NIEUWE GROEPERING DIE ZICH BUFON NOEMT, MAAR DIE HEBBEN NIETS MET ONZE GROEP TE MAKEN. DEZE COLLEGA'S GEBRUIKEN DE NAAM BUFON VOOR HUN SITE... Ik wens hen veel succes met de verdere uitbouw van hun groep. Zij kunnen de naam BUFON wel geregistreerd hebben, maar het rijke verleden van BUFON kunnen ze niet wegnemen...
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UFO Sighted Over Pisco, Peru on April 22, 2018, Video, UFO Sighting News.
UFO Sighted Over Pisco, Peru on April 22, 2018, Video, UFO Sighting News.
Date of sighting: April 22, 2018 Location of sighting: Pisco, Peru The number one most popular moment of every day to catch a UFO is sunset. This is due to the angle of the sun and the angle of the UFO and the eyewitness, making a 90 degree angle. The sun, UFO, eyewitness are each points on the triangle. I will include a graph to better understand. UFOs are more frequently seen in South America, reasons unknown, but reports confirm this. Scott C. Waring
Eyewitness states:
Good friends to ca and another video this time I reached a UFO while I was bathing.
Experts think this black dot in the sky spotted hovering over Newcastle could be a UFO
Experts think this black dot in the sky spotted hovering over Newcastle could be a UFO
Witness 'will now undergo hypnosis' after sighting which has been made public due to a leading ufo hunter
By Ian Johnson
A UFO expert has released a file over a sighting made in Tyneside which the witness claims may have been a UFO - and has left the expert baffled
(Image: Ian Johnson)
Is it a bird? Is it a plane?
Or is it an extra-terrestrial craft from outer space?
That’s the question puzzling alien hunters after a “shape shifting” vessel was spotted hovering over Tyneside.
And the person who snapped it thinks it could be a UFO.
“I was in my back garden and when I looked up I noticed that the clouds had a wake in them as if an invisible force had pushed through them” reads a witness report of the sighting.
“As I looked about in the sky I saw nothing. I then looked North West over my fence and seen a triangular craft about the size of a Transit van.
“It was black in colour and seemed to be changing shape.”
The witness rushed to get their camera. When they returned the craft had “changed shape” and was smaller.
“It then started to ascend up into the clouds (and made) no sound at all,” adds the witness.
“When the UFO was at a certain height, three boomerang type crafts flew around it. The UFO was constantly changing shape.”
A report of last June’s Westerhope sighting was filed with North East UFO expert Glen Richardson.
He’s now made snaps of the sighting public, and praised the witness for going public, in a bid to try and establish what the mystery craft was.
“At the moment the investigation is at the early stage so it is difficult to say what it is,” admits Hartlepool’s Glen.
“There can be many explanations to what it might be. For example a bird is a common explanation.”
He’s getting the snaps analysed to try and shed some light.
“I’ve spoken to the witness via email and the witness has explained they’ve had many experiences over the years and is wanting to go through hypnotic regression,” he added.
“But again this is showing the popularity of ufo activity in the North-East and hopefully more and more people will come forward.”
Open Minds UFO Radio: Bryce Zabel has a long list of achievements in the feature film and television industry. Much of this includes UFO and alien related projects. This includes writing and producing the NBC series Dark Skies and the Syfy movie Official Denial. He also was on the writing staff of Steven Spielberg’s Taken and ABC’s Lois and Clark (don’t forget, Superman is an alien). More recently, he co-wrote the book A.D. After Disclosure: When the Government Finally Reveals the Truth About Alien Contact with Richard Dolan. He is currently working on two UFO related movies. One is about the Betty and Barney Hill abductions and the other is a movie about the work of Roswell researchers Stanton Friedman and Don Schmitt.
Bryce also co-wrote a book titled A.D. After Disclosure: When the Government Finally Reveals the Truth About Alien Contact. It is a fictional book that tries to imagine what would happen if the government announced that we are being visited by aliens. In this interview, we discuss with Bryce if we are living in a bit of a post-disclosure environment now, since the revelation that the government has been investigating UFOs. We also discuss Art Bell who recently passed away. Bryce knew Art and even cast him in an episode of his TV series Dark Skies.
Filer’s Files #16 – 2018 We Were Brought to Earth - PART I
Simi Valley, California triangle captured on April 2, 2018
Filer’s Files #16 – 2018 We Were Brought to Earth - PART I
Special reports, this week’s files cover: NASA The Search for Human’s Original Home, Sumerian Anunnaki Came to Earth, Expert says You’re Aliens— We Were Brought to Earth of Thousands of Years Ago, DNA an Efficient Information Storage System, Enceladus Saturn’s Moon May Have Alien Life, and Art Bell Broadcaster Passes Away at 72
Unidentified Aerial Phenomena sightings were reported over Arizona, Arkansas, California, Florida, Idaho, New Jersey, New York, Ohio, and Virginia.
Unidentified Aerial Phenomena sightings were reported over Australia, Canada, Norway, Portugal, Spain, and England in the United Kingdom.
Major George Filer , Editor of The National UFO Center, would like to invite join him in Mt Shasta this summer July 27-29th 2018. He will present a wonderful program at the “From Venus with Love” conference. To see invitation please go to this page.
The Filer Research Institute feels the scientific study of UFOs is for the benefit of humankind and is an important endeavor. The US Air Force investigated UFOs publicly for more than twenty years under Project Blue Book; and I continue this advanced research. I believe the God of the universe has spread life throughout the cosmos and UFO’s are visiting us in ever-increasing numbers.
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Special Projects
NASA | The Search for Human’s Original Home
The Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) was launched April 18, 2018, and will discover thousands of exoplanets in orbit around the brightest stars in the sky. In a two-year survey of the solar neighborhood, TESS will monitor more than 200,000 stars for temporary drops in brightness caused by planetary transits. This first-ever space borne all-sky transit survey will identify planets ranging from Earth-sized to gas giants, around a wide range of stellar types and orbital distances. No ground-based survey can achieve this feat. It is expected to discover thousands of exo-planets one may be Heaven or the original home of humans. Thanks to NASA
Sumerian Anunnaki Came to Earth
These ancient tablets hold the secrets of our true history because they contain evidence of the oldest recorded events in history. The main focus of study is looking at the first occurrences of themes, stories and language found in the archeological record, and then comparing them to the historical record. The consistencies between them may reveal our true history. By looking at the original tablets, some dated thousands of years before the Bible, that were utilized to make up our borrowed stories. The Sumerian was one of the first cultures of humankind. It was developed between 5300 BC and 2000 BC, it is still one of the most advanced civilizations known to have existed on Earth. Sitchin claims the cuneiform text describe an alien race named the “Anunnaki” who came to the earth from an undiscovered planet in our Solar System, beyond Neptune called Nibiru.
Expert says You’re Aliens— We Were Brought to Earth of Thousands of Years Ago
Ancient Code reports, “What if Humans are the aliens we’ve been looking for all along?” According to experts, humans were most likely crossbred with another species, perhaps from the star system Alpha Centauri –which is one of the closest solar systems to Earth—in the distant past, giving birth to modern humans.
Tell Al-Uhaymir modern-day Iraq, where the ancient Sumerian city of Kish used to be, archaeologists found one of the oldest ancient documents on the planet, the tablet of Kish which is believed to date back to the year 3500 BC.
The Sumerian king list states that Kish was the first city to have kings following the deluge, beginning with Jushur. Jushur’s successor is called Kullassina-bel, but this is actually a sentence in Akkadian meaning “All of them were lord”. Thus, some scholars have suggested that this may have been intended to signify the absence of a central authority in Kish for a time.
This ancient document is believed to precede the cuneiform writing of the Sumerians, and the Egyptian hieroglyphs for almost one hundred years. Developing the ability to express thoughts through written language is one of the first ways in which man differed from the animal kingdom.
Highly advanced civilizations have been here before us, just to be destroyed by some great global catastrophe. But for each race that has died out, another has taken its place, with a selected few holding on to the memories and sacred knowledge of the past race. In our vanity we think we have discovered some of the great truths of science and technology, but we are in fact only just beginning to rediscover the profound wisdom of past civilizations. In many ways, we are like an awakening Species with Amnesia, yearning to reclaim our forgotten past.
Five thousand years since, humans have developed electricity, divided the atom, developed computers, and led man to the moon. We have achieved things that other species have still not. No other species on earth can attribute such unique achievements in such a short period of time. Interestingly, compared to other species of the earth, our ‘evolution’ is relatively short.
It has been a short period of time, most likely a few million years since the first hominid walked on Earth. Precisely this is one of the biggest scientific questions of all times: Why have only our species emerged to this truly advanced technological intelligence?
Evidently, there is nothing more advanced than humans on planet Earth.
While there are different ‘intelligent’ species on Earth, none of them makes use of technology like us. Just imagine for a second, if for some reason, mankind had to return to the jungle, and survive there. Many experts agree that most of them would not survive for a very long period of time. Many scientists agree that humans, in addition to their intelligence, are not very capable to occupy a wide range of environments. In other words, we are very limited when it comes to our planet.
In addition to our fascinating intelligence, biologists have also noticed contrasts between human physiology and that of other animals on earth. Many scientists agree that compared to other species on earth, humans are rather strange. For example, a baby horse when born is able to walk and function almost independently, but this a human baby cannot do, which makes us quite helpless. In other words, we are born before being neurologically ready for life. Many researchers agree that there are many vulnerabilities that accompany our intelligence.
Humans on earth are bipeds, which freed up our superior extremities allowing us to manipulate objects, create tools and much more. But for all this, experts believe that our species has paid an expensive price. Back and Lumbar pain a sign that according to many experts could tell us a lot about our species. Curiously, other animals on Earth do NOT have this problem. It’s as if only humans are affected by some of these problems. Furthermore, as noted by Robert Sepher, according to modern DNA sequencing, it is demonstrated that humanity as we know it, isn’t just ONE single ‘race’ that descended from the same ancestor in Africa, but a hybridized species, with a far more enigmatic truth behind it all.
Many questions have been raised in the discussion about Rh negative blood. If mankind did, in fact, evolve from a mutual ancient African ancestor, theories state that everyone’s blood would be compatible, but regrettably, this is not the case. This raises numerous questions that science alone has not been able to fully answer. Where did Rh-negative blood come from? And why is it that a Rh-negative mother carrying Rh positive children tries rejecting her own offspring? Is it possible that this can be explained by a rather controversial theory? A theory which suggests that humanity isn’t in fact one race, but a hybridized species.
The book was written by Robert Sepehr, “Species with Amnesia: Our Forbidden History” tells us more about the enigmatic blood type Rh-negative. Not only does Species with Amnesia suggest mankind is, in fact, a hybridized species, the author suggests that highly advanced civilizations have been on Earth before us, just to be destroyed by some great global catastrophe, as mysteriously, history tells us.
Sepehr argues that for each race that has died out, another has taken its place, with a selected few holding on to the memories and sacred knowledge of the past race. In our vanity, we think we have discovered some of the great truths of science and technology, but we are in fact only just beginning to rediscover the profound wisdom of past civilizations. In many ways, we are like an awakening Species with Amnesia, yearning to reclaim our forgotten past. –
The Basque people of Spain and France have the highest percentage of Rh-negative blood. About 30% have (rr) Rh negative and about 60% carry one (r) negative gene. There are 612 primate species and subspecies recognized by the International Union for Conversation of Nature (IUCN), and not one has Rh-negative blood”. – Robert Sepehr, Species with Amnesia: Our Forbidden History
Professor Milton Wainwright from the University of Buckingham Centre for Astrobiology and his team inspected and analyzed the rock and its biological contents. They theorized that it not only pointed to the existence of extraterrestrial life, “but to complex and civilized beings watching our planet.” Could this be true? Have aliens been seeding Earth since the beginning of time and are now watching us to see how we respond? If so, what is their purpose and why do they not make themselves known to us?
A Missing Planet May Be a Clue
In the Asteroid Belt between Mars and Jupiter, scientists have noted there appears to be a missing planet. Was the asteroid belt formed by an exploding planet whose ancient civilization escaped to earth? Could we be descendants from an alien race that previously occupied another planet? Could some of those aliens still be living among us, either unrecognized or in hiding? Perhaps the progenitors of life on Earth escaped the annihilation of life on their own planet and are now hiding on Earth, watching to see if we destroy ourselves.
Mysteries of the Solar System
While the search for scattered remains of ancient aliens on Earth continues, greater mysteries stretch throughout the solar system before us. Explore how our solar system was once the staging ground for an ancient civilization such as Venus or Mars which propagates life throughout the universe.
Humans are not from Earth
According to one expert, it means that we are the aliens we’ve we been looking for all along. A new theory proposed by Dr. Ellis Silver states that there are several tell-tale signs present in the human race that suggest human beings did not evolve ALONGSIDE other life forms on Earth.
The book called ‘Humans are not from Earth: a scientific evaluation of the evidence’ is basically a resume of theories for and mostly against man’s evolution on Earth. In the book, leading environmentalist and ecologist Dr. Ellis Silver goes through an evaluation of thirteen leading hypothesis and seventeen factors which suggest HUMANS ARE NOT FROM EARTH.
Mankind is supposedly the most highly developed species on the planet, yet is surprisingly unsuited and ill-equipped for Earth’s environment: harmed by sunlight, a strong dislike for naturally occurring foods, ridiculously high rates of chronic disease, and more said Dr. Ellis in an interview.
According to Dr. Ellis, humans might suffer from back pain because our species initially evolved on another planet with a lower gravity. Adding to the mysteries, Dr. Ellis also indicates that it is strange that newborns have large heads and make it difficult for mothers to give birth, which can result in fatalities for both mother and child.
So where do we come from? According to Dr. Ellis, Neanderthals were most likely crossbred with another species, perhaps from the star system Alpha Centauri –which is one of the closest solar systems to Earth— in the distant past, giving birth to modern humans.
According to Dr. Ellis, there are millions of people around the globe who ‘feel’ that they do not belong on Earth.
Dr. Ellis explains: “This suggests (to me at least) that mankind may have evolved on a different planet, and we may have been brought here as a highly developed species. One reason for this … is that the Earth might be a prison planet since we seem to be a naturally violent species and we’re here until we learn to behave ourselves.”
Here’s what you’ll discover: 53 factors that prove we couldn’t have evolved on Earth. Why we’re here on Earth, and how and when we got here. Where our true home planet is.
This is an a page from the book.
In China there are a hundred pyramids thousands of years old with the remains of blue eyed blonds buried nearby. White skin humans were first developed at this time.
Dr. Ellis concludes that mankind did not evolve from that particular strain of life, but evolved elsewhere and was transported to Earth (as fully evolved Homo sapiens) between 60,000 and 200,000 years ago.
This is an a page from the book.
Is Human Life on Earth Related to Extraterrestrials?
Panspermia is a mechanism that allows biology to spread through space without needing a spaceship. living matter “hitches a ride on sunlight or inside rocks.” Some scientists believe that Mars was indeed inhabited at one time. Some space rocks were “kicked” off the planet and landed in the Antarctic. Biological material from Mars that was in the rocks may spur exploration into the search for the solution to the age-old question: Where do we come from and why are we here? There are several theories that relate to extraterrestrials.
For example, did aliens escape from an unknown planet and come here due to dire circumstances on their home planets? Are we descendants of this race? Environmentalist and ecologist turned author Dr. Ellis Silver believes this is the case.
In his book, Humans are not from Earth: A Scientific Evaluation of the Evidence, Dr. Silver presents 17 reasons why humans are not suited for living on this planet. He believes these reasons indicate we originated from another planet. He says that while Earth meets some of our needs as a species, it is not as good a fit for us as much as “whoever brought us here initially thought.”
Silver gives some examples of our unsuitability for living on Earth. For example, he states that humans do not do well with large doses of sunlight, which we receive every day. He also notes there are a large number of people in the world who have chronic back aches, which he attributed to evidence that we originated from a planet with lower gravity. He also notes that we are better programmed to exist with a 25-hour day instead of a 24-hour one.
Silver suggests we may have come from Alpha Centauri. The planet may have suffered some type of cataclysmic event from which a few residents were able to escape and come to Earth.
ARE WE DESCENDANTS OF REFUGEES FROM MARS?
Face on Mars
Scientists and researchers believe that, eons ago, Humanoids inhabited Mars but a war destroyed the livability of the planet. This could have been due to the equivalent of two hydrogen bombs exploding on Mars 300,000 to 1 million years ago. Is it possible some living beings were able to escape to Earth before the destruction?
ARE ALIENS AMONG US?
In 1999, a contact inside the U.S. Defense Intelligence Agency told a reporter his job was to analyze and monitor three extraterrestrial groups who were, and likely still are, inhabiting Earth. The source said the alien species lives inside mountains, under the earth and sea in deep caverns.
The source expressed his belief that the ETs have a great deal of control over the planet and its inhabitants. He said the aliens have links to Mars, Sirius and Zeta Reticuli 1 and 2. The aliens living on Earth look very similar to humans. They have a head, two eyes, a mouth, two legs and two arms. They regularly study humans and take sperm, DNA and other bodily samples.
The aliens may be trying to manipulate human genetics in order to create artificial mutations. Is it is possible we are a product of an ancient alien species that continues to study, observe and manipulate humans for reasons we don’t know? One possible reason is our immunity to various types of bacteria and viruses that could kill the visitors.
There are many deep space mysteries for which there seems to be more questions than answers. Immerse yourself in Deep Space: Mysteries of the Solar System for an adventure into the study of extraterrestrials and their influence and control of humans.
DNA an Efficient Information Storage System
Paleontologists for some reason have ignored the possibility of intervention by extraterrestrials. They admit thousands even millions of mutations would be required to develop cells from the primordial soup to fish, primitive land creatures, then apes to hominids or primitive man. We know now that our DNA molecule is probably the most efficient information storage system in the entire universe.
The immensity of complex, coded and precisely sequenced information written on the DNA is amazing. The evidence speaks of intelligent, information-bearing design. Complex DNA coding would have been necessary for even the hypothetical first ‘so-called’ simple cell(s).
A single cell is unbelievably complex being roughly equivalent to New York City in a bubble or the outer membrane of one cell. As we move in closer to examine the cell we see the huge buildings, roads, subways, bridges, auto traffic that represent the various parts of the cell. As we move closer inside the various buildings we find a network of electrical wiring, heating and air conditioning systems, elevators carrying people. Inside the offices are millions of computers and wiring chips. Now you have an idea of the complexity of one of your single cells in your body, that can duplicate itself in minutes.
From his discovery of the structure of DNA, he felt life did not originate on earth, and suggests a theory called Panspermia. That the seeds of life are all through the universe. This concept basically infers that life, DNA, virus, bacteria, bombarded from space aboard meteorites or even space ships.
Francis Crick proposed, in a book called “Life Itself,” that some form of primordial life was shipped to the earth billions of years ago in spaceships—by supposedly ‘more evolved’ (therefore advanced) alien beings. This concept basically infers that life, DNA, virus, bacteria, bombarded Earth from space aboard meteorites and comets. Personally, I have seen the spaceships and tracked them on radar and have spoken with dozens of people including astronauts and key heads of state who conclude that extraterrestrials visit Earth.
The Neanderthals had brow ridges to keep the sun out of their eyes, but why don’t we? When a leading scientist walked into a wall and broke his nose, he decided to find out. In this fascinating and wide-ranging book, Dr. Ellis Silver examines the evidence that’s all around us … and discovers that we evolved on a world distinctly different from the one we live on today and what it’s like to live there. The logical conclusion is that we came from a planet with lower levels of UV radiation, which didn’t give us skin cancer. The light levels there must have been relatively consistent throughout the year, which implies a lack of seasons. Venus is one planet that lacks seasons but is said to be very hot. Most of our vitamin D – and perhaps all of it must have come from our diet, and whatever we ate must have been rich in vitamin D and enjoyable to eat. It appears that this type of food is unavailable on planet Earth. The only source on Earth is the livers of oily fish which most people won’t eat even if it could save their lives.
Why valid evidence is ignored, denied and covered up by scientists and governments. (There’s actually a very good reason.) What we really know about extraterrestrials and their spacecraft
Dr. Silver also uncovers: The origins of RNA and DNA, and how life evolved – on Earth and elsewhere, A more accurate timeline of human evolution – without the gaps and mistakes. Why the Theory of Evolution is wrong – and how to fix it. Why the Out of Africa theory is wrong – and what really happened.
Enceladus Saturn’s Moon May Have Alien Life
Humanity may need look no further than our own Solar System in the search for alien life, researchers probing one of Saturn’s moons said Tuesday.
The icy orb known as Enceladus may boast ideal living conditions for single-celled microorganisms known as Achaeans found in some of the most extreme environments on Earth, they reported in the science journal Nature Communications.
A methanogenic (methane-producing) Achaean called Methanothermococcus okinawensis thrived in laboratory conditions mimicking those thought to exist on Saturn’s satellite, the team said.
On Earth, this type of Achaean is found at very hot temperatures near deep-sea hydrothermal vents, and converts carbon dioxide and hydrogen gas into methane.
Traces of methane were previously detected in vapor emanating from cracks in Enceladus’ surface.
“We conclude that some of the CH4 (methane) detected in the plume of Enceladus might, in principle, be produced by methanogens,” the researchers in Germany and Austria wrote.
They also calculated that sufficient hydrogen to support such microbes could be produced by geochemical processes in Enceladus’ rocky core.
The authors had set out to test the hypothesis that conditions on the satellite may be good for hosting methanogenic archaea.
The data, based purely on laboratory study, showed this “could be” so, said Simon Rittmann of the University of Vienna who co-authored the scientific paper.
But the results provide “no evidence for possible extraterrestrial life,” he underlined to AFP.
“Our study only concerns microorganisms. I would like to avoid any speculation about intelligent life,” he said. Saturn is the sixth planet from the Sun, separated from Earth only by Mars and Jupiter. It has dozens of moons.
Previous research suggested that Enceladus sports an ocean of liquid water — a key ingredient for life — beneath its icy surface. The moon is also thought to contain compounds such as methane, carbon dioxide, and ammonia, and its south pole sports hydrothermal activity — a combination of traits that makes it a key target in the search for extra-terrestrial life. Alien Life in Our Solar System? Study Hints at Saturn’s Moon | Newsmax.com
Art Bell Broadcaster Passes Away at 72
Arthur William Bell III (June 17, 1945 – April 13, 2018) was an American broadcaster and author. He was the founder and the original host of the paranormal-themed radio program Coast to Coast AM, which is syndicated on hundreds of radio stations in the U.S. and Canada.[4]He also created and hosted its companion show Dreamland.
In 2003, Bell semi-retired from Coast to Coast AM. During the following four years, he hosted the show many weekends on Premiere Networks. He announced his retirement from weekend hosting on July 1, 2007, but occasionally served as a guest host through 2010. He attributed the reason for his retirement to a desire to spend time with his new wife and their daughter, born May 30, 2007. He added that unlike his previous “retirements”, this one was permanent, but he left open the option to return to broadcasting. He treated the subject of UFOs seriously and millions of late night listeners.
Bell hosted classic episodes of Coast to Coast AM that can be heard in some radio markets on Saturday nights under the name Somewhere in Time. I spoke with Art on several occasions and he was always pleasant and knowledgeable, He has served in Vietnam the same time I had.
Bell died at his Pahrump, Nevada home on April 13, 2018. [9]
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Filer’s Files #16 – 2018 We Were Brought to Earth - PART II
Filer’s Files #16 – 2018 We Were Brought to Earth - PART II
UFO Sightings in the United States
Arizona Light
Chino Valley — I was driving home from Prescott Valley at 8:15 pm and I noticed an object when heading on 89 Highway heading home to Chino valley. I thought it was an airplane. The UFO looked like a white orb and when I videotaped it changed colors. The UFO would go in circle and would go sideways, up and down. The UFO would hover. then would fly at high speeds. Then slow down then just stay floating. I was elated and in awe. I was excited and amazed but lost it at my house. It just disappeared at high speed. Also two huge planes were chasing it but they couldn’t keep up with the UFO. It was amazing, Thanks to MUFON CMS
Arkansas Lights
Siloam Springs — I was driving with my kids around 9 pm down Highway 59 passing a small private airport on February 9, 2018.
I looked out my window an observed a glowing gold light transforming the sky in flight. It was so bright and beautiful, My kids asked, “What is that mom?” and I said, “ I really don’t know.” So I took some photos of the object. Thanks to MUFON CMS
California Objects
Newport Beach— Notice in the attached picture stx craft along with a strange object in the sky at the left lower corner.
Note: The objects in the photo are probably reflections or due to debris on windshield and probably not real objects.
The picture was taken on March 25, 2018 at 8:35 AM
Simi Valley — When driving home, the moon was very large and cresting the mountain on April 2, 2018. I took some pictures. The next morning, when reviewing the pictures, the moon was not showing up good. but on the third picture, time stamped to the same minute (9:59) as the other two, there was a smudge at the top. When I zoomed in, the smudge looked like a triangular craft. When I was driving, I did not see it or hear anything. I think it looks similar to a stealth fighter but it’s not quite the same. But, I thought I’d report it. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Florida Lights
Geneva— I have a lot more photo and video evidence as this taken on April 4, 2018. I would like to share with you.
My hope is to have a professional observer come and witness alongside of me. It’s hard for anyone around me to understand exactly what is there. I would really like to share this experience with people who can interpret it with an open unbiased mind. Also I just have to have someone there who appreciates this and will be excited along with me. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Idaho Orb
Fernwood — I have seen these star-like UFO’s for years now, visible on any clear night totaling from 2 to 7 in number. They appear to be trying to cloak themselves as a star, but unlike stars, they hover up/down, side-to-side as on April 10, 2018. On a few occasions, I have seen them zigzag across the sky and several times I’ve seen them drop to a mountainside near my property, but no sound of a crash. There is never sound involved and they will remain hovering for hours, and strobe bright white on top and bottom and swirling/pulse colors of red, blue/green in the middle that, through binoculars, seems to be a propulsion system. I have photographed many UFO’s and orbs while at my cabin. I am submitting this report that was filmed on Tuesday April 10, 2018. Video of another UFO was taken on April 14, 2018. I have included a picture of an orb caught on film during a family reunion held at my cabin. I have had several friends and family members view them from my deck throughout the years. They may come due to the rich minerals, the isolation, and the abundance of wildlife. Thanks to MUFON CMS
New Jersey Triangle
Newark – A cloaking triangle UFO was reported by witness who stated, : “It looked like a hologram moving 100 feet over a nearby building”. The witness was driving north on McCarter Highway about 10:50 p.m. on March 2, 2017. It was pulsating with invisibility every other second as it was flying east. The witness was then able to make out the craft’s shape. “Every other second that it was visible, I saw blue-white colored lights, kind of dim, in the shape of a triangle.There had to be at least 15 lights. I kept driving on the highway going north. It kept flying to the east before totally disappearing on the other side of the river.” New Jersey MUFON Field Investigator Glenn Green closed this case as an Unknown Other. “Based on the enormous size of this object and very slow speed,” Green wrote in his report, “it’s a wonder that more people didn’t come forward with their stories about seeing it. She said that she was stunned felt the object was struggling to keep itself cloaked. She got a good look at the lights and claimed that they were definitely not man-made.” Thanks to MUFON CMS
New Jersey Light
Madison— I thought I was looking at a satellite making its rounds, which would have been very normal on April 4, 2018.- A pale, blue light moving at a steady pace through the sky (I have a clear view as I live across from a college baseball field). After a few seconds it abruptly stopped, and in a blizzard became this white, cigar shaped thing that glowed pink and yellow, colors pulsating. This new, living light then zigzagged through the sky in a very unnatural way. Its movements were so sharp and angular. After this display it seemed to simply rise into the night sky and disappear. I watched it the whole minute it was around, and it was jaw dropping. But instead of feeling elated and justified, all I felt was an overwhelming terror. I now understand why there is so little photographic evidence of phenomenon like this, a camera is the very last thing you can think about. Thanks to MUFON CMS
New York Lights
Woodhaven— Then a second appeared they zoomed past each other to where the other was then darted back to their original position. Now I jump up and start taking pictures but the train is moving. As this is happening there is at least a helicopter and a plane but much smaller with traditional blinking lights. A 3rd big bright and to take pictures then they begin to simultaneously rotate counter clockwise, I think I can get a better shot from Jamaica bound side so I run there down then up the other stairs & take more pictures. Then they all dart up and right. I took 46 pictures on my Samsung 8 and 9 of them are great. Most amazing thing I have ever seen. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Ohio Cylinder
New Bremen — I was on my way to work and it just hovered in a stationary position on March 22, 2018.
This road is a 55 mile an hour road and I took the picture when no one was in front of me on a pretty clear day.
It was a fairly busy road so I took the picture and kept on driving. I see jets on occasion but the ones I have seen left trails this one left nothing. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Virginia Red Orb
Ridgeway— I was waiting for it to get dark, the night before I had seen some strange lights. Once it became dark enough to see a bright star on April 17, 2018, I began to go outside to see if the lights were back, and they were. We observed two UFOs within the first 15 minutes. Then we see a couple more within the hour, it’s very cold outside so we went inside to put on thicker clothes and hats/gloves. Once back outside she grabs me and says, “Look its moving!” It moves on a straight line from a still position then it stops, my wife verbally requests it to keep moving if it is real and it moves again. She grabs my arm they’re taking both of us if they come down here.
We see several more in the next hour then decide to go inside. We lay on the couch talking about what we have seen my wife gets dead tired shortly after and falls asleep.. She takes off her pants and sox and lays back down but stays awake and we talk for a few moments. Nearly an hour later she jumps up and points to the window I see a brief moment of a light float pass our living room window with no sound. The light we viewed was too close to be a vehicle of any kind and was moving in a fluent hovering motion and was right outside the window. Thirty minutes later my wife jumps up says she’s scared and she is trembling staring out the window. I get her to calm down at this point I feel very strange my heart starts pounding and I feel almost paralyzed I woke up at 3am severely parched and very hot, I decide to go to the store to get us some green tea, when I return home we eat a bite and decide to go to bed. We woke up today and my wife’s complaining almost crying about her stomach hurting. Once I wake up I realize my stomach hurts, I feel like vomiting and I had a hard time keeping my balance and concentration, but started feeling better after a few hours. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Worldwide UFO Sightings
Australia Object
Seaford — I was continuing my drive with my wife on April 13, 2018. We visited the Seaford hardware called Bunning’s I first noticed the object after noticing another anomalous object on my rear dash camera. I pursued a check of both dash camera footage to cross reference the images. I didn’t know what the object was. I was shocked when I discovered it along with earlier footage at Old Reynella. The object appeared to be flying in a straight path almost above me. I was excited to find this object because I wasn’t expecting to see another. It came into camera view as I discovered. Video footage should be paused and frame by frame looked at as the Kia carnival people mover door mirror gets to the edge of the video frame. You can see the orb in the top right hand side of the footage coming over as the people mover passes by. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Canada Red Flashing Object
Scarborough, Ontario— On Tuesday , April 10,2018, I went outside on work break, after about three minutes once outside alone I could see a brilliant red flashing light. It was one half mile away and quite high coming in from the west, I pulled out my camera to capture the moment. Took six pictures and then took my phone to video. As I’m starting to video as it drew closer to my position. I noticed it was no longer there as if it just disappeared out of sight.
Where did it go I thought? Reviewing the still shots capture it on the first picture taken, the video came up empty as I assume that’s when it disappeared. I find this ‘ sighting ‘ a rare sighting as most have been ‘white‘ flashing white objects. This will be my fifth sighting for 2018. Thanks again for your interest Paul Shishis
Norway Orbs
Rykkinn— I was reviewing my time-lapse photo sequence I shot on Saturday night april 14 and 15, 2018, Sunday morning. The strange light is visible on 21 frames out of 1300+ frames. The camera was outside on my balcony and I was inside when the photos were taken. I didn’t see the lights myself before I watched them on my pc. I think the object in the frames are very strange. Two light almost parallel across with one following almost perfectly. Have located from havens above and can’t find any satellites that match the trajectory. The pictures are taken on a Sony @6000 in Manuel mode, at F2.4 on a tripod with a timed to trigger the camera. Thanks to MUFON CMS
Portugal Lights
Zielona Góra — In the evening in, I looked up at the sky and noticed a strange flashing light on April 13, 2918. Ten minutes later, more lights appeared, then the lights of the plane appeared, which flew towards the lights. Five minutes later all the lights disappeared. A few days earlier a F-16 fighter was flying so low over the city for the first time in city history.
Ten minutes later, more lights appeared. Moments later, the lights of the plane appeared, which flew towards the lights. Five minutes later all the lights disappeared..
Thanks to MUFON CMS
Spain White Object
Granada — Looking at a photo I took earlier today on April 14, 2018, there appears to be a perfect white disk in the sky.
It may be a cloud but there are no other clouds nearby and it is perfectly disk shaped, which I find rather strange.
Thanks to MUFON CMS
UK/England Orb
Leicester — I was outside my mates flat and I saw UFO.
I filmed it on cell phone. The photo was taken on March 25, 2018.
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The 12,000-Year-Old Bosnian Pyramids, A Massive Archaeological Cover-Up?
The 12,000-Year-Old Bosnian Pyramids, A Massive Archaeological Cover-Up?
The fact that Pyramids are scattered across the planet isn’t a surprise. From America to Asia, archaeologists have found how nearly all ancient cultures built massive monuments thousands of years ago. Some of them served as tombs, while the purpose of many other pyramids remains a mystery.
But this fact alone is why it isn’t surprising to hear that Pyramids have also been found in Europe, more precisely Bosnia.
An illustration of the largest of the pyramids near Visoko.
According to many authors, the Bosnian Pyramid Complex is around 12,000 years old and was built by a mysterious people near Sarajevo, the capital of Bosnia and Herzegovina.
The structures were discovered back in 20015, when Dr. Semir Osmanagic announced he had discovered, beneath the hills of Visoko, a pyramidal complex and, which in addition to being one of the largest on Earth, was interconnected through a network of underground tunnels.
Dr. Osmanagic not only claims to have discovered four pyramids but he, as well as many other authors, are convinced that these pyramids are traces of a lost people.
His thesis holds that both the Mesoamerican and Egyptian pyramids are the work of the same people who built the four pyramids of Bosnia Herzegovina and that the pyramidal complex could be, according to his words, “the mother of all the pyramids.”
The Pyramid Valley in Bosnia.
In 2006, a great project was set up to restore the top of the Pyramid of the Sun.
Dr. Osmanagic assures that it is the most important of the four Pyramids measuring 360 meters in height.
Back then, the Bosnian Government made available the necessary funds to continue the excavation work in the Visoko region.
Dr. Osmanagic claimed that, over the centuries, some of the pyramids had lost their shape and that the material covering the Pyramids today did not allow to appreciate their geometry, so it was necessary to properly excavate them.
The decision of the Bosnian Government to fund the project raised a controversy in the European Association of Archaeologists, which was forced, in 2006, to write a manifesto against the decision of the Government of Bosnia and Herzegovina.
The massive Pyramid is said to hide in plain sight.
“We, the undersigned professional archaeologists from all parts of Europe, wish to protest strongly at the continuing support by the Bosnian authorities for the so-called “pyramid” project being conducted on hills at and near Visoko. This scheme is a cruel hoax on an unsuspecting public and has no place in the world of genuine science. It is a waste of scarce resources that would be much better used in protecting the genuine archaeological heritage and is diverting attention from the pressing problems that are affecting professional archaeologists in Bosnia-Herzegovina on a daily basis.”
Some authors consider that the document was a massive cover-up. The letter was signed by Hermann Parzinger, President of German Archaeological Institute in Berlin; Willem Willems, Inspector General of Rijksinspectie Archeologie in The Hague; Jean-Paul Demoule, President of the Institut nationale de recherches archéologiques préventives (INRAP) in Paris; Romuald Schild, Director of the Institute of Archaeology and Ethnology of the Polish Academy of Sciences in Warsaw; Vassil Nikolov, Director of the Institute of Archaeology of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences in Sofia; Anthony Harding, President of the European Association of Archaeologists; and Mike Heyworth, Director of the Council for British Archaeology in York.
But why go through so much to stop excavations?
After all, if there aren’t any pyramids in Bosnia, why go through such an effort to stop the man? Why not let him dig? Time would eventually tell who was right, whether it was Dr. Osmanagic or all other archaeologists who were against the excavation process.
What the pyramid may have looked like, according to authors who consider the Pyramids of Visoko are real.
That’s because according to some experts, ‘genuine archaeological sites’ from the region could perish if the excavations go through.
Amar Karapuš, a curator at the Historical Museum of Bosnia and Herzegovina in Sarajevo, said, “When I first read about the pyramids I thought it was a very funny joke. I just couldn’t believe that anyone in the world could believe this.”
Garrett Fagan of Penn State University is quoted as saying, “They should not be allowed to destroygenuine sites in the pursuit of these delusions[…] It’s as if someone was permitted to bulldoze Stonehenge to find secret chambers of lost ancient wisdom underneath.”
Enver Imamović of the University of Sarajevo, a former director of the National Museum of Sarajevo, concerned that the excavations will damage historic sites such as the medieval royal capital Visoki, said that the excavations would “irreversibly destroy a national treasure.”
Furthermore, mainstream scholars such as Curtis Runnels, an American expert on prehistoric Greece and the Balkans from Boston University, claimed that the people who inhabited Bosnia and Herzegovina in the past, were a primitive people who were small in number and who “did not have the tools or skills to engage in the construction of monumental architecture.”
But Runnels, for example, is clearly underestimating the ancient people that lived in these areas thousands of years ago.
One clear example is the Vinca Culture, an ancient people who occupied the region of Southeastern Europe (i.e. the Balkans) corresponding mainly to modern-day Serbia but also parts of Romania, Bulgaria, Bosnia, Montenegro, Republic of Macedonia, and Greece. This ancient culture, which existed around 10,000 years ago created the so-called Vinča symbols, which some believe are the earliest form of proto-writing. The Vinča culture also provides the earliest known example of copper metallurgy.
But despite received heavy criticism from ‘mainstream experts’, Osmanagic and his team have pursued their goal firmly. As a Bosnian, Osmanagic surely isn’t interested in destroying the rich history of the countries culture, and according to many, his only goal is to reveal an even richer history of not only the country he comes from but the ancient people that once inhabited these parts of Europe.
Scientists Find New ‘Hidden’ Structure Inside Human DNA
Scientists Find New ‘Hidden’ Structure Inside Human DNA
“This new research reminds us that totally different DNA structures exist – and could well be important for our cells.”
Ladies and Gents, forget what you thought you knew about DNA. Scientists have just discovered a new, ‘hidden’ structure inside Human DNA.
An illustration of an i-motif embedded in a strand of DNA.
(Mahdi Zeraati.)
The modern biological era began when Rosalind Franklin, James Watson, and Francis Crick discovered the twisted structure of DNA in 1953. Understanding that structure is what has allowed scientists to unravel the mysteries of the genetic code, but there was one part that was missing.
It turns out that the human DNA had a long-held secret: the popular double helix with which we interpret the DNA structure is not the only way it adopts.
In fact, and for the first time ever, a team of scientists has identified a new structure that resembles a twisted knot of four ropes.
The new structure has just been described in the journal Nature Chemistry, and it seems to play a crucial role in the way DNA is expressed.
Despite the fact that experts have long thought this structure (called i–motif) may exist, never before had it been detected inside living human cells. The “i” stands for “intercalation,” which is a chemistry term for a layered structure.
The structure consists of four strands of DNA paired in a peculiar way.
Discovering the i-motif inside living cells indicates that it most likely plays a significant role in cell biology.
In the double helix, the nitrogenous bases of adenine (A) form pairs with thiamin (T), while the cytosine (C) does the same with guanine (G).
These bases are structured one on top of the other twisting in two rows of glucose and phosphate that form an elegant staircase in the form of a double helix.
This structure plays a determining role in the synthesis of proteins, note experts.
Discovering the hidden structure
“Our imaging suggests that this is a normal thing that happens,” said Marcel Dinger, a molecular biologist at the Garvan Institute for Medical Research in Sydney, Australia, who oversaw the research. “It is very likely that genomes in all the cells of our bodies are forming i-motifs at some point in time.”
In order to detect the i-motif, scientists used a fragment of an antibody capable of recognizing and adhering specifically to the i-motif forms.
We still know little about its function or importance, but it seems clear that, while the double helix is the predominant structure, the most common way that DNA has to store its information, there are other patterns whose role could be determinant for the control of the gene expression and, therefore, control diseases related to it, such as certain cancers.
“What excited us most is that we could see the green spots – the i-motifs – appearing and disappearing over time, so we know that they are forming, dissolving and forming again,” said Dr Mahdi Zeraati, a member of the team.
“We think the coming and going of the i-motifs is a clue to what they do. It seems likely that they are there to help switch genes on or off, and to affect whether a gene is actively read or not.”
The discovery was published in the scientific journalNature Chemistry.
Scientific evidence of a transcendent truth: beings from another world created life on earth
Findings in fields as diverse as genetics, biology, biochemistry or astrophysics point to a destabilizing evidence: that a nonhuman intelligence - perhaps an alien civilization, as acclaimed scientists claim - artificially manufactured terrestrial DNA, assembling certain elements by means of genetic engineering and coding in it the information necessary for the emergence of life on our planet. This thesis has been and is defended by top-level researchers, such as the discoverer of the DNA structure and Nobel Prize in Medicine for this finding. In 1953, Harold Urey and Stanley Miller, two scientists from the University of Chicago (USA), conducted an experiment, described by the press of the moment as "the most surprising of all the trials." Both researchers had created a mixture formed by simple molecules of methane, ammonia, hydrogen and water vapor, which they introduced into a vessel with water. His intention was to reproduce the "primordial soup," in which they presumed life had been born on Earth for the first time billions of years ago.
In short, "the most surprising essay in history", which we all studied at school as proof that life arose accidentally and spontaneously, only managed to form inert compounds, which did not clarify about the birth of the first cells alive: the basic units of every being, capable of absorbing nutrients - nutrients - and reproducing in new cells. The same year that Urey and Miller made their famous essay in 1953, biologists James D. Watson and Francis Crick made one of the great discoveries of humanity: they discovered the structure of DNA in the form of a double helix, which complicated plus the explanation that life was born on Earth casually. For their achievement, Watson and Crick received the Nobel Prize in Medicine in 1962, becoming in their own right two of the most influential scientists of the twentieth century. Francis Crick was always known for making his opinions known in a clear and resounding manner, without half measures or ambiguities. Therefore, few were surprised when in 1973 he published an article with the chemist Leslie Orgel in the magazine Icarus (vol 19). In this work he defended a theory that many of his fellow scientists already knew: that life on our planet had been inseminated "by the deliberate activity of an extraterrestrial civilization." Francis Crick was aware - like many other geneticists - that the DNA structure in the form of a double helix seemed to have come from nothing, because no intermediate steps had been found prior to its formation. Therefore, he deduced that the only possibility is that he had reached our planet already conformed. The probability that extraterrestrial living organisms "landed" on our planet on board a meteorite or by spores pushed into our world because of the pressure exerted by the radiation of a star -as defends the hypothesis of panspermia-, is practically null according to Crick, because no living organism would resist the rigors of such space travel.
Uranus, the horrible, screaming lad of the solar system, is apparently as unfortunate as all those jokes make it out to be.
In a new study published Monday in Nature Astronomy, researchers detail their findings after analyzing infrared light from the Gemini North telescope in Hawaii. Using the telescope’s Near-Infrared Integral Field Spectrometer (NIFS), the team was able to observe light reflecting from Uranus’s cloud tops. They found hydrogen sulfide, the chemical compound responsible for the stench in rotten eggs and yes, farts.
“If an unfortunate human were ever to descend through Uranus’s clouds, they would be met with very unpleasant and odiferous conditions,” the study’s lead author Patrick Irwin, a physicist based at the University of Oxford, said in a statement. “Suffocation and exposure in the negative 200 degrees Celsius atmosphere made of mostly hydrogen, helium, and methane would take its toll long before the smell.”
Though Uranus has now been confirmed as a fart dungeon of death, the team says it might not be alone. It’s possible that in future studies, researchers will find hydrogen sulfide in our solar system’s other ice giant, Neptune. This would further separate Neptune and Uranus from the gas giants Jupiter and Saturn, where ammonia ice has been spotted in the cloud tops instead of hydrogen sulfide. The difference in cloud composition gives scientists a new lead in the mystery of how these gassy planets could have formed so differently from one another.
“We’ve strongly suspected that hydrogen sulfide gas was influencing the millimeter and radio spectrum of Uranus for some time, but we were unable to attribute the absorption needed to identify it positively,” the study’s co-author Glenn Orton, a physicist at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, said in a press release. “Now, that part of the puzzle is falling into place as well.”
Methane in Uranus’s cloud tops absorb the red part of light from the sun, which is why the planet reflects a homogenous blue color. It’s such a placid-looking planet — no one would suspect how truly vile and stinky it is.
While NASA doesn’t have any formal plans in place to revisit the ice giants any time soon, back in 2017, the space agency announced that it was backing research in support of a project to visit Neptune and Uranus again. It’s possible that ice giant research will be an item on the next Planetary Science Decadal Survey, which outlines NASA’s goals for the coming decade — in this case, 2022-2032.
Hopefully Uranus won’t be discounted just because it smells bad. It’s still an, mysterious world that deserves our love, even if it could kill us in 50 different ways.
Did NASA Just Film The Black Knight Orbiting Earth?
Did NASA Just Film The Black Knight Orbiting Earth?
According to UFO Hunters, NASA astronauts on board the International Space Station have allegedly managed to detect an unidentified flying object in space.
A supposed ‘alien ship’ crossed the sky, say UFO hunters, and the evidence was ignored by NASA.
As noted by the YouTube Channel UFO Today: “The ISS captured a UFO flying over a storm front. We can clearly see a mysterious object flying over the storm front. The object is orbiting earth so it’s not affected by the storm that brewing on earth. What was this object? Let me know in the comment! Kind regards! UFO Today.”
UFO Today suggested in their video that the mystery object orbiting Earth, just beneath the International Space Station could be related to the so-called Black Knight – an alleged ancient alien satellite said to have been in orbit around Earth since time immemorial.
Here’s the video:
But not everyone is convinced the Black Knight Satellite actually exists.
In fact, in 1998 a theory was proposed explaining the enigmatic object.
Experts maintain that the Black Knight Satellite is nothing more than space junk, in particular, a fragment of the thermal shield that astronauts lost when repairing the International Space Station.
But among other opinions, there are always those who think that NASA is hiding something and the fact that numerous news agencies and government agencies took interest in the alleged alien satellite fuel the conspiracy theory.
The time magazine wrote about the mysterious object.
The story of the Black Knight made its media debut in the 1940’s when the St. Louis Dispatch and The San Francisco Examiner wrote about the “Satellite” on May 14th, 1954.
The Time Magazine wrote about it on the seventh of March, 1960.
Here is what they said about it.
Three weeks ago, headlines announced that the U.S. had detected a mysterious “dark” satellite wheeling overhead on a regular orbit. There was nervous speculation that it might be a surveillance satellite launched by the Russians, and it brought the uneasy sensation that the U.S. did not know what was going on over its own head. But last week the Department of Defense proudly announced that the satellite had been identified. It was a space derelict, the remains of an Air Force Discoverer satellite that had gone astray. Read the complete story by visiting the Time Magazine website.
The Articles of 1954:
St. Louis Dispatch and The San Francisco Examiner, Article about the unidentified satellite
St. Louis Dispatch and The San Francisco Examiner articles about the unidentified satellite.
On August 23, 1954, the technology magazine Aviation Week and Space Technology released a story that angered the Pentagon, who were trying to keep the information secret. The short article stated:
Pentagon scare over the observance of two previously unobserved satellites orbiting the earth has dissipated with the identification of the objects as natural, not artificial satellites. Dr. Lincoln LaPaz, an expert on extraterrestrial bodies from the University of New Mexico, headed the identification project. One satellite is orbiting about 400 miles out, while the other track is 600 miles from the earth. Pentagon thought momentarily the Russians had beaten the U.S. to space explorations.
Astronomers Have Found An Alien Planet So Dark, It Absorbs Nearly 99% Of Light
Astronomers Have Found An Alien Planet So Dark, It Absorbs Nearly 99% Of Light
One of the strangest planets out there has been found by astronomers.
This planet is so dark, astronomers say it absorbs nearly all the light that hits it through a dense layer of haze.
The mysterious world has been compared to charcoal and is one of the darkest worlds ever discovered.
At 466 light years from Earth, astronomers have found one of the darkest worlds discovered so far.
Called WASP-104b, it’s one of the darkest planets out there. The mystery world is a gas giant, the size of our Jupiter, and orbits its star once every 1.75 days.
But unlike Jupiter, which is very far from the Sun, this giant world is so close to its own star that the intense radiation emitted by the star has completely “swept” its atmosphere and clouds, allowing elements such as sodium and potassium to emerge to the misty and fiery surface (more than 1,200 degrees Celsius) that surrounds the sinister planet.
Just like most hot Jupiter’s, WASP-104b is tidally locked, meaning one side always faces its star.
It turns out that both sodium and potassium are capable of absorbing up to 99percent of the light that reflects the surface of WASP-104b, allowing scientists to include the ‘Dark Jupiter’ in a short list that makes up the category of “dark planets” that scientists have ever discovered.
Keele University researchers from the UK explored the gas giant’s incredible light-absorbing characteristics in a scientific paper uploaded to the academic preprint server, arXiv.
“From all the dark planets I could find in the literature, this is top five-ish,” lead researcher and astrophysicist Teo Mocnik told New Scientist. “I think top three.”
But, if the planet is so dark and so far away, how was it found?
How do you find a planet that absorbs nearly 99% of the light?
The planet was found using its shadow.
When a planet crosses in front of its star (what in Astronomy is called “transit”), it hides a small part of its light, revealing its presence to observers on Earth.
WASP-104b was discovered in 2014 as part of the Wide-Angle Search for Planets project (WASP, hence its name), but at the time it seemed that it was a fairly typical hot gas giant.
WASP-104b was one planet that stood out among the others by the speed of its orbit, higher than the rest of the giant planets in the category of “hot Jupiter’s”, which are also characterized by being able to orbit their star in a matter of days.
However, at that time, it wasn’t possible to discover anything else about it that would give away a clue about its appearance.
Years later, the Kepler Space Telescope managed to identify it as part of a rarer subgroup of hot Jupiter’s.
One composed of planets that absorb much more light than they reflect.
It was then that astronomers realized that WASP-104b could be, even, the darkest world ever seen until that moment.
Kepler repeatedly recorded the period before and after its transit, a technique that can shed clues about the planet itself, including the amount of light reflected in it: and the answer was … practically none.
Explanation: Why is this planet so dark? Planet TrES-2b reflects back less than one percent of the light it receives, making it darker than any known planet or moon, darker even than coal. Jupiter-sizedTrES-2b orbits extremely close to a sun-like star 750 light years away, and was discovered producing slight eclipses in 2006 using the modest 10-cm telescopes of the Trans-Atlantic Exoplanet Survey (TrES). The alien world's strange darkness, however, was only uncovered recently by observations indicating its slight reflective glow by the Sun-orbiting Kepler satellite. An artist's drawing of planet is shown above, complete with unsubstantiated speculation on possible moons. Reasons for TrES-2b's darkness remain unknown and are an active topic of research.
So far, the darkest planet out there is another hot Jupiter called TrES-2b, which is believed to reflect as little as 0.1 percent of the light that hits it.
However, TrES-2b‘s title may be challenged as astronomers continue researching WASP-104b. Experts say it could be that WASP-104b has a real potential to challenge for that title.
Extraterrestrial Civilizations Won’t Produce Radio Signals
Extraterrestrial Civilizations Won’t Produce Radio Signals
A team of psychologists from the University of Cádiz have added their criticisms of S.E.T.I. methodology to those of a growing number of scientists
Some of you may know the psychological experiment in which viewers are asked to watch a video showing a group of people passing a ball around and attempt to count the passes, at one stage during the video a man wearing a gorilla suit walks through the scene. A great many people are so intensely focussed on the details of what they have been expecting to see, a ball being passed around, that they fail to notice the man in the gorilla suit
Now, a team of researchers from Spain have voiced concerns that humanity’s attempts to track down advanced alien life are being derailed by the same type of psychological blindness. The team suggest that astronomers are so focussed on detecting intelligent beings through non-earthly radio signals that they are likely to miss signs of life manifesting themselves in dimensions that typically escape our perception, perhaps through quantum phenomena, higher dimensional physics or even dark energy.
The new paper published in the journal Acta Astronautica by neuropsychologists Gabriel de la Torre and Manuel García from the University of Cádiz argues that the preoccupation with extraterrestrial radio signals might be a complete distraction from the more likely phenomenon associated with advanced life beyond our planet.
The authors of the paper conducted an experiment with 137 people who had to distinguish aerial photographs with artificial structures and natural elements, included in one of the images was a character disguised as a gorilla – around half of the subjects failed to notice this highly irregular inclusion.
While it is fascinating to see how our psychology and neural processes can limit that which we perceive, the experiment also revealed something else just as important, if not more so.
“In addition, our surprise was greater, since before doing the test to see the inattentional blindness, we assessed the participants with a series of questions to determine their cognitive style—whether they were more intuitive or rational—and it turned out that the intuitive individuals identified the gorilla in our photo more often than those more rational and methodical subjects,” said De la Torre.
Stop and consider this for a moment, rational scientists with their heavily structured thinking and predefined expectations are the people most unlikely to detect any anomalous communication from an advanced extraterrestrial civilisation. Meanwhile, the highly intuitive members of society are the ones almost certain to stumble on such a signpost. This is something of a revelation because while scientists continue to argue there is no sign of ET beings, intuitive members of the public have long been claiming that such signs do exist and are only not being recognised by the academic community!
Our brain is hardwired to see faces, even where they do not exist.
Image Credit: NASA JPL
De la Torre explains that while we tend to see order where there is none, such as the tendency to see faces in random patterns, known as pareidolia, it may also be that the opposite effect is occurring in the search for alien life.
“We can have the signal in front of us and not perceive it or be unable to identify it. If this happened, it would be an example of the cosmic gorilla effect. In fact, it could have happened in the past, or it could be happening right now.”
Indeed, it is my absolute conviction that this blindness is not merely something that might occur but has been happening for a very long time and continues to occur at this very moment in history. We have already received contact from at least one (perhaps more) advanced alien intelligence. The problem is that these ET beings are so advanced that searching for their radio wave transmissions is illogical, they will not be using radio signals as this is an extremely primitive method for communication.
To better understand the current situation we should consider the descriptions of two orders of civilisation detailed by the Spanish research team. Firstly a Type 2 civilisation is characterised by the longevity of its members, who would be in control of quantum and gravitational energy, manage space-time and be out exploring other galaxies. Secondly, a Type 3 civilisation would comprise exotic beings with eternal life, capable of creating in multidimensional and multiverse spaces, and with an absolute dominion of dark energy and matter.
Beings associated with either of these higher levels of civilisation certainly won’t be calling us on their ham radio rigs, nor flinging a tin can on a string towards us.
What signs of attempted contact should we then be looking for, and why do I firmly state that such communication is already underway?
The activities of Type 2 and Type 3 civilisations would without any doubt involve quantum phenomena, they would not be limited to the processes we know through Newtonian physics or classical mechanics. We should be looking out for a bizarre event that contradicts the current common consensus view of physical reality. For example, we might expect godlike beings that can present themselves directly into the brains of selected intuitive contactees and there announce their presence, without even leaving their home star systems.
Cosmic beings might instead remotely display manifestations of their advanced technology by modifying the workings of our local reality in front of multiple witnesses. Perhaps they could cause objects to pop out of nowhere and then morph through incredible transformations, a sphere of light to a being, a being into a metal craft, before vanishing from our perception once again.
In other words, we should be looking for the very phenomena that have been regularly described by thousands of people (usually highly intuitive people) for tens of thousands of years!
Contact is not something in our near in the future, it has been underway for a vast period, we have only failed to widely acknowledge this fact. The phone is still ringing, will we pick it up?
Black Knight UFO Satellite Explained…It’s NOT 13,000 Years Old! It’s NOT Even A UFO
Black Knight UFO Satellite Explained…It’s NOT 13,000 Years Old! It’s NOT Even A UFO
This whole black knight UFO satellite thing has gotten totally out of hand. For some reason which I can not fathom many, many people purposely and intentionally want and can believe anything. Facts do not sway them and anything that substantially threatens their topsy-turvy UFOlogical worldview is instantly labelled a conspiracy. Labeling anything with the conspiracy label without doing your due diligence is the height of intellectual laziness. This whole ‘Black Knight’ subject was explained to 100% satisfaction to the people that really know…the scientific community and anyone who has the wherewithal to check the publicly available NASA archive. But to some people, UFOlogy has become a religion. None of those pesky facts for them. Belief is all they need even if it is probably wrong. It appears especially if it is provably wrong.
UFOlogy MUST discourage this religiosity of the UFO subject. It helps no one, confuses most, and irritates to no end people that know better. Faith in anything is a bad thing. It robs a person of the burden of thinking too much and festers lies and deceit.
UFOlogy and UFO’s are REAL. No faith required. The scientific facts all point to a Universe teeming with life. Science is our only hope to validate and legitimize the study of such a paradigm-shaking subject. People have to learn to critically think about what they believe. In the end, what you believe does not matter, it is what you KNOW that counts.
So what is this so-called Black Knight…
Video and photographic images have arisen from armchair UFOlogists who claim they have further proof of the mysterious Black Knight satellite. Alien researchers have been calling the Black Knight one of the most convincing pieces of evidence for the existence of intelligent extraterrestrial life for the past 20 years, while some claim it has orbited Earth for at least 13,000 years.
There she goes” – dropped thermal blanket floats from ISS
The above video claims to conclusively prove the ‘Black Knight’, as photographed in 1998 NASA images, was nothing more than a satellite thermal blanket lost by the crew of the Endeavor space shuttle as they worked on the developing the International Space Station (ISS).
In the above video from NASA of the Endeavour mission which shows a thermal blanket on the ISS. The same blanket is then seen being dropped by the crew as it tumbles away into space. It is easy to identify that the blanket as being exactly the same shape as the ‘Black Knight’ in the 1998 pictures seized on by tin-foilists and explains that the object only appeared to change shape because it was turning as it fell away.
After releasing the pictures in 1998, NASA said it was a thermal blanket, but it did not stop a wave of branding it a huge cover-up.
The legend of the alien satellite seems to have then been retrospectively dated back to 1899 when Nicola Tesla announced he was picking up radio waves coming from space, prompting people to suggest something alien was out there.
In 1954, US state newspapers carried quotes from Donald Keyhoe, a retired naval aviation Major and UFO researcher, claiming the US Air Force had detected two satellites orbiting Earth, despite none yet being launched from our planet. Time then ran a 1960 piece, following the launch of satellites from Earth, stating that the US Navy detected a dark object, possibly a Soviet spy satellite, with a highly irregular orbit.
The myth developed in 1963 when NASA astronaut Gordon Cooper was reported as saying he had seen the ‘Black Knight Satellite’ while in space, but there was a media blackout upon his return and the US space agency allegedly put it down to cosmic hallucinations.
It has been reported that a decade later in 1973, a researcher from Scotland, Duncan Lunan, looked back at the Norwegian scientists’ data from 1928, before claiming the “messages” suggested the ‘Black Knight’ was sent by aliens from Epsilon Boötis, as a welcome message to Earth 12,600 years ago.
Many sceptics claim the legend was retrospectively created after the 1998 pictures emerged, with the preceding odd events weaved into the story to make it more convincing.
They insist research shows that in 1954 Mr Keyhoe had been promoting a UFO book and the articles had been written in a tongue-in-cheek fashion by the papers.
A follow-up, but less widely read, the article in Time also confirmed that the strange satellite had in fact been the remains of an Air Force Discoverer satellite that had gone astray, they found. There are reports that Mr Cooper, although maintaining he saw a number of UFOs in space, never claimed to have seen the ‘Black Knight satellite’ on that mission or at all.
Mr Lunan is also later reported to have denied suggesting any alien satellite had its origins 12,600 years ago and that his conclusion that the noises were a star map was from unscientific methods. Despite this video, many UFO researchers refuse to believe the fabled ‘Black Knight satellite’ could be just a thermal blanket, insisting, it is a craft of solid construction.
Not sure how the true believers would know that since the shape and dimensions of an ISS thermal blanket is unknown to them. They just know. These thermal blankets are custom-formed to fit over the heavily utilized and odd shaped ISS components for a custom fit. That is exactly what is seen.
OK… so let’s recap.
So a thermal blanket (which can be up to 10 cm’s thick) that is the exact shape and size as the alleged black knight satellite is discarded or lost from the ISS. ISS cameras catch it slowly meandering away…but no it’s a 13,000-year-old alien probe obviously. The apparent darkness of the object is due to how cameras work. To get the right exposure to show the planet underneath which is very bright will give the illusion of the object in the foreground being grey or black. It is all about exposures.
This object no longer lingers in the sky. It would have burned up shortly after it was lost. As soon as it experienced drag from the fast-moving atmosphere it would be incinerated. Reentry into the Earth atmosphere is rough.
Please, my dear reader, do not assist in the religiosity of UFOlogy. This so-called mystery is no mystery at all.
Tesla had nothing to do with this at all. It is well known that what Tesla picked up was the first interception of weak signals from what is now called a pulsar. In the modern form of delusional UFOlogy whenever you see claims that Tesla was involved at all you should know instantly that it is bullshit. Tesla was amazing in what he actually attained in his life and he is godlike in what is claimed he has done. 95% of all claims involving Tesla are false. Tesla is used by click bait artists in an attempt to legitimize their literary detritus.
Solar System Planets: Order of the 8 (or 9) Planets
Solar System Planets: Order of the 8 (or 9) Planets
ByRobert Roy Britt
Ever since the discovery of Pluto in 1930, kids grew up learning about the nine planets of our solar system. That all changed starting in the late 1990s, when astronomers began to argue about whether Pluto was a planet. In a highly controversial decision, the International Astronomical Union ultimately decided in 2006 to call Pluto a "dwarf planet," reducing the list of "real planets" in our solar system to eight.
However, astronomers are now hunting for another planet in our solar system, a true ninth planet, after evidence of its existence was unveiled on Jan. 20, 2016. The so-called "Planet Nine," as scientists are calling it, is about 10 times the mass of Earth and 5,000 times the mass of Pluto. [The Evidence for 'Planet Nine' in Our Solar System (Gallery)]
Did You Know?Three of the planets in the solar system are currently visible in the night sky in June 2017. They are: Venus, Jupiter and Saturn. You can find out how and when to see the brightest planets in June's night sky here: The Brightest Planets in June's Night Sky: How to See them (and When)
If you insist on including Pluto, then that world would come after Neptune on the list; Pluto is truly way out there, and on a wildly tilted, elliptical orbit (two of the several reasons it got demoted). Interestingly, Pluto used to be the eighth planet, actually. More on that below.
Terrestrial planets
The inner four worlds are called “terrestrial planets,” because, like Earth, their surfaces are all rocky. Pluto, too, has a solid surface (and a very frozen one) but has never been grouped with the four terrestrials.
Jovian planets
The four large outer worlds — Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune — are known as the “Jovian planets” (meaning “Jupiter-like”) because they are all huge compared to the terrestrial planets, and because they are gaseous in nature rather than having rocky surfaces (though some or all of them may have solid cores, astronomers say). According to NASA, "two of the outer planets beyond the orbit of Mars — Jupiter and Saturn — are known as gas giants; the more distant Uranus and Neptune are called ice giants." This is because, while the first two are dominated by gas, while the last two have more ice. All four contain mostly hydrogen and helium.
Dwarf planets
The IAU definition of a full-fledged planet goes like this: A body that circles the sun without being some other object's satellite, is large enough to be rounded by its own gravity (but not so big that it begins to undergo nuclear fusion, like a star) and has "cleared its neighborhood" of most other orbiting bodies. Yeah, that’s a mouthful.
The problem for Pluto, besides its small size and offbeat orbit, is that it shares its space with lots of other objects in the Kuiper Belt, beyond Neptune. Still, the demotion of Pluto remains controversial.
The IAU planet definition puts other small, round worlds in the dwarf planetcategory, including the Kuiper Belt objects Eris, Haumea, and Makemake.
Also now a dwarf planet is Ceres, a round object in the Asteroid Belt between Mars and Jupiter. Ceres was actually considered a planet when discovered in 1801 and then later deemed to be an asteroid. Some astronomers like to consider Ceres as a 10th planet (not to be confused with Nibiru or Planet X), but that line of thinking opens up the possibility of there being 13 planets, with more bound to be discovered.
The planets
Below is a brief overview of the eight primary planets in our solar system, in order from the inner solar system outward:
Mercury
The closest planet to the sun, Mercury is only a bit larger than Earth's moon. Its day side is scorched by the sun and can reach 840 degrees Fahrenheit (450 Celsius), but on the night side, temperatures drop to hundreds of degrees below freezing. Mercury has virtually no atmosphere to absorb meteor impacts, so its surface is pockmarked with craters, just like the moon. Over its four-year mission, NASA's MESSENGER spacecraft has revealed views of the planet that have challenged astronomers' expectations.
Discovery: Known to the ancients and visible to the naked eye
The second planet from the sun, Venus is terribly hot, even hotter than Mercury. The atmosphere is toxic. The pressure at the surface would crush and kill you. Scientists describe Venus’ situation as a runaway greenhouse effect. Its size and structure are similar to Earth, Venus' thick, toxic atmosphere traps heat in a runaway "greenhouse effect." Oddly, Venus spins slowly in the opposite direction of most planets.
The Greeks believed Venus was two different objects — one in the morning sky and another in the evening. Because it is often brighter than any other object in the sky — except for the sun and moon — Venus has generated many UFO reports.
Discovery: Known to the ancients and visible to the naked eye
The third planet from the sun, Earth is a waterworld, with two-thirds of the planet covered by ocean. It’s the only world known to harbor life. Earth’s atmosphere is rich in life-sustaining nitrogen and oxygen. Earth's surface rotates about its axis at 1,532 feet per second (467 meters per second) — slightly more than 1,000 mph (1,600 kph) — at the equator. The planet zips around the sun at more than 18 miles per second (29 km per second).
The fourth planet from the sun, is a cold, dusty place. The dust, an iron oxide, gives the planet its reddish cast. Mars shares similarities with Earth: It is rocky, has mountains and valleys, and storm systems ranging from localized tornado-like dust devils to planet-engulfing dust storms. It snows on Mars. And Mars harbors water ice. Scientists think it was once wet and warm, though today it’s cold and desert-like.
Mars' atmosphere is too thin for liquid water to exist on the surface for any length of time. Scientists think ancient Mars would have had the conditions to support life, and there is hope that signs of past life — possibly even present biology — may exist on the Red Planet.
Discovery: Known to the ancients and visible to the naked eye
Named for: Roman god of war
Diameter: 4,217 miles (6,787 km)
Orbit: 687 Earth days
Day: Just more than one Earth day (24 hours, 37 minutes)
The fifth planet from the sun, Jupiter is huge and is the most massive planet in our solar system. It’s a mostly gaseous world, mostly hydrogen and helium. Its swirling clouds are colorful due to different types of trace gases. A big feature is the Great Red Spot, a giant storm which has raged for hundreds of years. Jupiter has a strong magnetic field, and with dozens of moons, it looks a bit like a miniature solar system.
Discovery: Known to the ancients and visible to the naked eye
The sixth planet from the sun is known most for its rings. When Galileo Galilei first studied Saturn in the early 1600s, he thought it was an object with three parts. Not knowing he was seeing a planet with rings, the stumped astronomer entered a small drawing — a symbol with one large circle and two smaller ones — in his notebook, as a noun in a sentence describing his discovery. More than 40 years later, Christiaan Huygens proposed that they were rings. The rings are made of ice and rock. Scientists are not yet sure how they formed. The gaseous planet is mostly hydrogen and helium. It has numerous moons.
Discovery: Known to the ancients and visible to the naked eye
The seventh planet from the sun, Uranus is an oddball. It’s the only giant planet whose equator is nearly at right angles to its orbit — it basically orbits on its side. Astronomers think the planet collided with some other planet-size object long ago, causing the tilt. The tilt causes extreme seasons that last 20-plus years, and the sun beats down on one pole or the other for 84 Earth-years. Uranus is about the same size as Neptune. Methane in the atmosphere gives Uranus its blue-green tint. It has numerous moons and faint rings.
Discovery: 1781 by William Herschel (was thought previously to be a star)
Named for: Personification of heaven in ancient myth
The eighth planet from the sun, Neptune is known for strong winds — sometimes faster than the speed of sound. Neptune is far out and cold. The planet is more than 30 times as far from the sun as Earth. It has a rocky core. Neptune was the first planet to be predicted to exist by using math, before it was detected. Irregularities in the orbit of Uranus led French astronomer Alexis Bouvard to suggest some other might be exerting a gravitational tug. German astronomer Johann Galle used calculations to help find Neptune in a telescope. Neptune is about 17 times as massive as Earth.
Once the ninth planet from the sun, Pluto is unlike other planets in many respects. It is smaller than Earth's moon. Its orbit carries it inside the orbit of Neptune and then way out beyond that orbit. From 1979 until early 1999, Pluto had actually been the eighth planet from the sun. Then, on Feb. 11, 1999, it crossed Neptune's path and once again became the solar system's most distant planet — until it was demoted to dwarf planet status. Pluto will stay beyond Neptune for 228 years. Pluto’s orbit is tilted to the main plane of the solar system — where the other planets orbit — by 17.1 degrees. It’s a cold, rocky world with only a very ephemeral atmosphere. NASA's New Horizons mission performed history's first flyby of the Pluto system on July 14, 2015. [Related: New Horizons' Pluto Flyby: Latest News, Images and Video]
Planet Nine orbits the sun at a distance that is 20 times farther out than the orbit of Neptune. (The orbit of Neptune is 2.7 billion miles from the sun at its closest point.) The strange world's orbit is about 600 times farther from the sun than the Earth's orbit is from the star.
Scientists have not actually seen Planet Nine directly. Its existence was inferred by its gravitational effects on other objects in the Kuiper Belt, a region at the fringe of the solar system that is home to icy objects left over from the birth of the sun and planets.
Scientists Mike Brown and Konstantin Batygin at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena described the evidence for Planet Nine in a study published in the Astronomical Journal. The research is based on mathematical models and computer simulations using observations of six other smaller Kuiper Belt Objects with orbits that aligned in a similar matter.
Additional reporting by Nola Taylor Redd, Space.com Contributor.
See Thousands of Asteroids Swirl Around the Sun in This NASA Video
See Thousands of Asteroids Swirl Around the Sun in This NASA Video
By Mike Wall, Space.com Senior Writer
The inner solar system looks downright crowded in a new video showing the fruits of an asteroid-hunting spacecraft's labor.
The video plots the data gathered during the first four years of NASA's NEOWISE mission, which has spotted and characterized more than 29,000 objects since December 2013. Most of those are asteroids in the main belt between Mars and Jupiter, but the total includes nearly 800 near-Earth objects (NEOs) and more than 130 comets, mission team members said.
"NEOWISE continues to expand our catalog and knowledge of these elusive and important objects," mission principal investigator Amy Mainzer, of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, said in a statement.
"In total, NEOWISE has now characterized sizes and reflectivities of over 1,300 near-Earth objects since the spacecraft was launched, offering an invaluable resource for understanding the physical properties of this population, and studying what they are made of and where they have come from," she added.
The spacecraft launched as the Wide-Field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) in December 2009 to perform a broad, all-sky survey in infrared light. WISE completed this original mission in 2011 and was then placed in hibernation.
But the probe was awakened in September 2013 and given a new mission — to aid NASA's effort to better understand the huge population of space rocks zooming through Earth's neighborhood. This is NEOWISE.
The new mission's fourth year was quite productive: Between December 2016 and December 2017, NEOWISE captured more than 2.5 million infrared images of the sky and discovered 10 objects that have been classified as potentially hazardous asteroids, NASA officials said.
To date, astronomers have discovered about 18,200 near-Earth objects. But this tally is just barely scratching the surface; the total NEO population is thought to number in the millions.
About 15,000 years ago, changes in ocean circulation caused the North Pacific Ocean to discharge copious amounts of CO2 into the atmosphere, thereby warming the planet and sealing the end of the last Ice Age. The findings could prove highly important for managing and mitigating current climate change trends.
Credit: University of St Andrews.
Researchers studied the chemical composition of the fossilized shells of a type of plankton called foraminifera — some of the most abundant shelled organisms in many marine environments. This allowed British scientists at the University of St Andrews to reconstruct the exchange of CO2 between the North Pacific Ocean and the atmosphere. The analysis showed that around the end of the last Ice Age, the North Pacific released large amounts of CO2 during a time when the Atlantic ocean’s currents were rapidly changing.
The shift in ocean circulation not only explains the considerable release of CO2 by the North Pacific, which eventually helped end the Ice Age by warming the entire planet, but also the drop in oxygen levels in the Pacific Ocean seen at the time and first observed nearly two decades ago.
The findings have huge implications for climate research today. Just last week, scientists at the University College London reported that the Atlantic’s circulation is at its weakest point in 1,600 years, a trend that could disrupt weather patterns all the way from the United States to the African Sahel. The 15% slowdown, compared to peak circulation, is equivalent to three million cubic meters of water per second — water movement that is connected to fish stocks, industry and weather systems.
The link between ocean currents and very rapid changes in the climate, identified by the new study, gives us an example of just how intricately connected different parts of the climate system can be. In other words, “changes in circulation in one region can drive changes in CO2 and oxygen all the way over on the other side of the planet,” said Dr. Will Gray, lead author of the new study and a researcher at the School of Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of St Andrews.
“The North Pacific Ocean is very big and just below the surface the waters are brimming with CO2; because of this, we really need to understand how this region can change in the future, and looking into the past is a good way to do that,” Gray added.
Co-author Dr. James Rae, also from the University of St Andrews, added: “Although the CO2 rise caused by this process was dramatic in geological terms, it happened very slowly compared to modern man-made CO2 rise. Humans have driven CO2 rise in the atmosphere as large as the CO2 rise that helped end the last Ice Age, but the man-made CO2 rise has happened 100 times faster. This will have a huge effect on the climate system, and one that we are only just beginning to see.”
Scientific reference: William R. Gray et al. Deglacial upwelling, productivity and CO2 outgassing in the North Pacific Ocean, Nature Geoscience (2018). DOI: 10.1038/s41561-018-0108-6.
Mysterieuze ijscirkels vastgelegd in Noordpoolgebied. NASA-wetenschappers staan voor een raadsel
Mysterieuze ijscirkels vastgelegd in Noordpoolgebied. NASA-wetenschappers staan voor een raadsel
Een NASA-wetenschapper heeft tijdens een vlucht boven de oostelijke Beaufortzee mysterieuze ijsgaten vastgelegd. Dat schrijft Newsweek.
Het is voor zover bekend de eerste keer dat de gaten zijn vastgelegd op camera. Onderzoekers weten niet wat het zijn of hoe ze zijn ontstaan.
NASA-wetenschapper John Sonntag, die deel uitmaakt van Operation IceBridge, maakte de beelden op 14 april. “Ik heb zoiets nog nooit eerder gezien,” zei hij.
Mysterieuze gaten
De gaten werden ontdekt op enkele tientallen kilometers ten noorden van de aftakkingen van de Canadese rivier Mackenzie, die uitmondt in de Beaufortzee.
Sonntag wilde het zeeijs analyseren, toen zijn aandacht plotseling werd getrokken door de mysterieuze gaten.
Zijn collega Nathan Kurtz legde uit dat de gaten zich in een dunne ijslaag bevinden, maar dat hij niet precies kan zeggen hoe ze zijn ontstaan.
Nog nooit
“Ik heb nog nooit zoiets gezien,” zei Kurtz.
Walt Meier van het National Snow and Ice Data Center suggereerde dat de gaten zijn gemaakt door zeehonden.
Glacioloog Chris Shuman van de University of Maryland, Baltimore County zei dat de gaten mogelijk het gevolg zijn van warm water dat zich een weg baant naar het oppervlak.
Oh, snap! That earthy image really mars our picture of it. Wonder what it Saturn? (Insert your own bad Uranus jokes and puns here.)
Finished? That giggling sound you hear is astronomers around the world enjoying their once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to make an announcement, tell a joke and school the masses on the correct pronunciation of the seventh planet from the Sun (it’s UR-unus.)
“If an unfortunate human were ever to descend through Uranus’ clouds, they would be met with very unpleasant and odoriferous conditions.”
“Very unpleasant and odoriferous conditions” is the scientific term for “farts” in a new study co-authored authored by astronomer Patrick Irwin of England’s Oxford University. Published this week in Nature Astronomy, the study explains how Irwin and his colleagues used the Near-Infrared Integral Field Spectrometer (NIFS – which can be rearranged to spell ‘snif’) on the Gemini North telescope in Hawaii to ‘snif’ what Uranus is cooking. And what it’s cooking is rotten eggs and worse, according to the readings.
“We’ve strongly suspected that hydrogen sulphide gas was influencing the millimetre spectrum of Uranus for some time, but we were unable to attribute the absorption needed to it uniquely. Now, that part of the puzzle is falling into place as well.”
Study co-author Glenn Orton of Nasa’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory identified the smelly culprit — hydrogen sulfide, the odiferous compound that gives its rotten egg aroma to crude petroleum, natural gas, volcanoes, hot springs, cold springs, well water, bad breath and more. It’s enough that actual rotten eggs should sue for defamation of character.
Which brings us to the question … are there rotten eggs on Uranus and if so, how did they get there? (Can we blame the Klingons?)
“During our Solar System’s formation the balance between nitrogen and sulphur was determined by the temperature and location of planet’s formation. This tells you the gas giants and the ice giants formed in a slightly different way. They had access to different reservoirs of material back in the forming days of the solar system.”
Co-author Dr. Leigh Fletcher of the University of Leicester’s Department of Physics and Astronomy explains in a press release why the gas giants – Jupiter and Saturn – can hide whatever hydrogen sulfide they might have under thick clouds of ammonia gas, while the ice giants – Uranus and Neptune (which also has hydrogen sulfide) — show signatures of it in their upper cloud decks, which were suspected but not detected until the arrival of the big sniffer – the Near-Infrared Integral Field Spectrometer.
What does this discovery mean for future probes to Uranus? Irwin explains the bad news/good news.
“If an unfortunate human were ever to descend through Uranus’s clouds, they would be met with very unpleasant and odiferous conditions.”
Here’s the good news.
“Suffocation and exposure in the negative 200 degrees Celsius atmosphere made of mostly hydrogen, helium, and methane would take its toll long before the smell.”
Perhaps the best approach is to send up a sign in a universal language – cuneiform perhaps – and plant it on one or all of the planet’s 27 moons with an arrow pointing to Uranus and a message reading:
Back in April 2017, Mysterious Universe reported on the discovery of a “lost city” near Arkansas City, Kansas. The ruins of the once thriving, fortified city of Etzanoa were discovered by Donald Blakeslee, an anthropologist at Wichita State University. Prior to finding any proof of the settlement, the academic community was largely in agreement that the city was a myth, an invention of the Spanish conquistadors who went looking for a city made of gold and concocted wild stories about a native town that stretched for miles. After discovering proof of Etzanoa, however, the “lost city” is now considered one of the largest native settlements in North America alongside the lost city of Cahokia, and it might prove to be the absolute largest. Donald Blakeslee believes that excavation of the site will continue for decades and will rewrite the history of early native settlers of the great plains. Since the initial discovery, development of the area as a historic tourist attraction and landmark has moved quickly: guided tours of parts of the ruins are now open to the public and plans are being drawn for site development, museum exhibitions, and more archaeological expeditions.
The city of Etzanoa was highly developed and big—at least five miles across. Blakeslee says that the approximately 20,000 inhabitants of Etzanoa possessed the infrastructure for processing “industrial quantities” of bison, likely spoke multiple languages, and traded at great distances. This, he says, shatters the “Hollywood image” of native people in the great plains. The ancestors of the Wichita who lived in this city—and, Blakeslee thinks, many other cities like it in the region—were an urban, industrious people, a far cry from the popular conception of the early indigenous peoples of North America
Blakeslee says that there is still much more to find, and the next dig is scheduled for June:
The archaeological community knows about this, and we have been getting help on equipment. This year, in June, we will be ground-truthing. Finding out what is there. You don’t know until you dig holes.
Artist’s depiction of Cahokia, the mound city previously thought to be the largest in North America.
According to Blakeslee, there’s a lot more holes to dig too. He says that while this project is starting in Arkansas City, there are a number of equally impressive lost cities to be found in the area:
There was one south of Winfield, another near Augusta, several in Rice County, McPherson County and Marion
The town of Arkansas City, Kansas was built nearly on top of the remains of Etzanoa. That’s one of the challenges facing the Etzanoa Conservancy Board as it strives to make the site a recognized landmark in the public mind. Hap McLeod, president of the Etzanoa Conservancy Board, says that a feasibility study is being conducted this summer and from there the board hopes to develop a five-year-plan of development that may include purchasing more land and developing a river walk and kayaking route so visitors can the stone artwork of the Etzanoans.
Arkansas City, KS, the location of Etzanoa, was a 19th century boom town.
For now, the guided tours being offered are limited in their scheduling and access, but that will soon change. Currently tours run on Saturdays, at the price of $10 per person and visit four of the major locations around town. In June the , Cherokee Strip Land Rush Museum will be opening an exhibit on Etzanoa and putting together a traveling exhibit that other museums and schools can request.
The site is quickly gaining national and international attention. McLeod says that the discovery has changed Arkansas City:
People are more aware of it. We have more tourism, but we are working to make this a national and world historic site.
Here’s hoping the board can strike the delicate balance between important archaeological site and tourist attraction.
On April 17th, NASA scientists released a photo bearing some rather peculiar details. The image, which displayed a frosty area of the Beaufort Sea in the Arctic Ocean, was taken in coordination with NASA’s Operation IceBridge, a program which maps ice in the region on an annual basis, both on land and at sea.
However, visible within the satellite photo was also a series of unexplained holes in the ice which left some of the NASA mission scientists baffled.
The photo (see above) was procured by John Sonntag with Operation IceBridge, who reported on NASA’s Earth Observatory page. “We saw these sorta-circular features only for a few minutes today. I don’t recall seeing this sort of thing elsewhere.”
According to NASA’s statement, the unusual circular features “are more of a curiosity than anything else.”
Other scientists commented on the equally unusual “wave-like” formations that appeared near the holes in the photograph. Sea ice geophysicist Don Perovich of Dartmouth College said, “The ice is likely thin, soft, and mushy and somewhat pliable. This can be seen in the wave-like features in front of the middle ‘amoeba.’”
In Petrovich’s view, it could be that left-to-right motion that occurs when two floes of thin ice collide–a phenomenon called “finger rafting”–might partially explain some of the unusual features.
However, IceBridge project scientist Nathan Kurtz, while acknowledging the appearance of the finger rafting displayed in the photo, maintains that the circular features are anomalous. “I’m not sure what kind of dynamics could lead to the semi-circle shaped features surrounding the holes,” Kurtz was quoted saying. “I have never seen anything like that before.”
One novel theory as to what could have caused the circular formations has less to do with the geophysics of ice, and instead suggests a possible mammalian source. Specifically, it is believed that seals may have carved their way through the ice in order to create “breathing holes.”
A breathing hole in sea ice made by ring seals at Pond Inlet, Canada
The idea is not without precedent since several varieties of seals are known to do this (see photo above). Another theory is that processes involving convection might explain the circular formations, which is not an uncommon occurrence even on larger bodies of water.
On April 20, 2009, an unusually large (2.7 miles wide) circular formation appeared on the surface of Lake Baikal, Russia’s largest landlocked body of water. The photograph, which was also obtained by NASA’s Earth Observations experiment, showed “a circle of thin ice… the focal point for ice break up in the very southern end of the lake.” Of course, numerous stories of unusual phenomena associated with Lake Baikal over the years led to speculations online that the underlying cause might have been an underwater base, or that it might even be associated with alleged UFO sightings at the location reported by the Russian Navy.
Circular formation on the surface of Lake Baikal, visible from the International Space Station in April, 2009.
Of course, similar annular features are common occurrences on much smaller bodies of water as well (especially those whose depths are far too shallow to allow for subaquatic bases of any kind). Resulting from processes similar to those already referenced above by Don Petrovich known as “slush fingering”, a variety of features that are similar both to Baikal’s large “ice circle,” as well as the features observed more recently on the surface of the Beaufort Sea, can and do often occur. For an excellent summary of how slush fingering leads to the formation of ice circles on the surface of ponds, I recommend Jon Nelson’s post on this at the Story of Snow blog, which can be viewed here.
So the question remains of the mysterious holes in the Arctic Ocean ice… are they the result of natural convection, or are seals gnawing through the ice to make room to breathe? In either case, the most likely explanation for this mystery appears to be a natural one.
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